Jakob Götzenberger

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Jakob Götzenberger (painting by Louis Krevel , 1834)
Mermaid of the Wildsee , fresco in the Trinkhalle Baden-Baden (1844)

Jakob Götzenberger (also Franz Jakob Julius Götzenberger , born November 4, 1802 in Heidelberg , † October 6, 1866 in Darmstadt ) was a German painter .

Life

Götzenberger was a student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and one of Peter Cornelius's first students there since 1820 . From 1821 he exhibited in Düsseldorf . From 1828 to 1832 he stayed in Italy . He lived in Rome , where he was one of the founders of the Ponte Molle Society , from late 1828 to mid-May 1831.

Together with Carl Heinrich Hermann and Ernst Förster , he devoted himself for three years to the frescoes in the auditorium of the University of Bonn , the first monumental work of the Düsseldorf School of Cornelius, whereby of the figurative representations of the four faculties with their representatives, the main part of law and philosophy fell. He exhibited The Law Faculty , which he composed in Düsseldorf in 1825/1826, the box Die philosophische Falultät designed in Rome in 1829/1830, and the box made in Mannheim The Medical Faculty 1833–35. At that time Götzenberger u. a. befriended the southwest German portrait painter Louis Krevel , who also made a portrait of him.

Later he was appointed court painter and gallery inspector in Mannheim . Commissioned by Baroness Josepha Ursula von Herding , he decorated the house chapel of Dalberg-Herding'schen Castle in Nierstein (Rheinhessen) with a cycle of frescoes and in 1844 painted the drinking hall in Baden-Baden with depictions from the fairy tales of the Black Forest, including the mermaid of the forest lake .

Soon afterwards he resigned from his position as gallery inspector due to personal misconduct and left Germany. From then on Götzenberger lived in England, where he worked as a portrait and fresco painter and in London decorated the large central atrium in Bridgewater House , the palace of the Earl of Ellesmere, as well as Northumberland House , the seat of the Duke of Northumberland, with murals .

literature

Web links

Commons : Jakob Götzenberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 119, no. 49 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, p. 214
  3. ↑ Johann Josef Scotti, p. 119, no. 49
  4. ↑ Illustrated website for the castle chapel in Nierstein
personal data
SURNAME Götzenberger, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Götzenberger, Franz Jakob Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1866
Place of death Darmstadt